The annual EAUC Conference proved once more why it is a firm favourite for education and sustainability professionals alike last week. Held at the beautiful Keele Univeristy, we debuted our exciting new academic side to the event, and showcased an impressive line up of workshops and keynote speakers.
In a series of firsts for the conference; this year was the first time it has had both a campus stream and an academic stream and workshops were collaborative and hugely inspiring. It was also the first year that a journal will be produced that captures all of the best practice and shared learning from presenters.
Sponsored by Carbon Credentials, the conference focus was aligned with Goal 17 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ‘partnerships for the goals’ and this theme continued throughout the whole event.
Turning Student Waste into Treasure
The psycho-social approach to climate change engagement
The SDGs in Education: How we are (attempting) to include the SDGs across all programmes and how we are tracking our progress - NUS and University of Winchester
The #SDGTeachIn: how student demand led to over 200 teaching staff including the SDGs in their teaching, learning, and assessment
For collaborations for change and global educational goals Ioan Fazey is Professor of the Social Dimensions of Environmental Change at the University of Dundee and...
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This session will review what is happening in UK Universities in relation to sustainability education and ask whether we are busy going around in circles and question where the...
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An interactive workshop experience which explores how organisations cope with major environmental incidents. Think of an environmental version of ‘Pandemic’ which...
This workshop is to open up a discussion about institutional-level mapping of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This will be a collaborative learning experience...
This session will provide feedback to attendees on the latest developments arising from the EAUC Future Business Council. The Council was established 12 months ago and enables...
Two universities (Leicester & Oxford) share their journeys from BREEAM to Passivhaus via Soft Landings to show you how to create low carbon/low energy buildings that respond...
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Sustainable Development depends on The relationship of people to the environment and the relationship of people to each other
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In early 2016, Splendid Fred Records produced an original album of songs about Climate Change called ‘This Changes Everything'. This session will tell the story of...
This workshop will detail the different approaches and partnerships involved in this holistic approach to whole institution ESD integration.
This session will detail the approach, and show how it can be replicated at any institution, within any subject area. SDGs are not just for developing countries - they are for...
Fundamental to our approach is an integrated Student Development Programme which includes the Leeds Sustainable Curriculum, a University-wide programme of integrating...
Based on interviews with sustainability leaders in UK universities, this session presents a structured means to understand leadership styles, traits and behaviours that catalyse...
This international session is an update on the Accord’s progress and how signatories are benefiting from it.
The Sustainable City Challenge is a staff engagement programme designed to involve all staff.
This workshop will provide you with insight into the useful management and developmental tool.
Introducing a new EAUC toolkit designed for anyone working to influence senior management change on sustainability in a FHE context.
This session starts by briefly describing the key strategic elements of the CCCU journey since 2010, which now form the basis of a new Project Planning, Monitoring and...
This session will present the experiences of working in partnership with a third-party provider to implement a ‘mass’ staff engagement platform that rewards staff -...
This interactive workshop will involve a shortened version of the internationally successful 'Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit' from the University of...
This workshop is to open up a discussion about institutional-level mapping of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This will be a collaborative learning experience...
Leadership and commitment is now at the centre of the new ISO14001:2015 standard.
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Learn from a recent graduate whose curriculum project is now being used by the partners as she interns for the City Council.
We aimed to develop a shared understanding and route maps for sustainability locally with students at the centre. These collaborations enabled students to be agents of change,...
This session will outline some of the work of the group so far and the expected project outputs, giving attendees the opportunity to inform the project working group of what...
The workshop is an innovative and enjoyable way to understand the fundamental principles of the impact of construction materials on the environment using gamification.
This presentation will introduce the key elements of our award-winning module, which embeds Sustainability with Employability as core in the final year of all NBS undergraduate...
This session will explore how sustainability can be advanced through interdisciplinarity, and how this can contribute to breaking down barriers between university and community.
Winning the interest and support of professional services departments can make or break the success of sustainability initiatives.
The session will emphasise practical student’s engagement through partnership and involving community into the curriculum.
Making the case for investment in sustainable buildings presents a significant challenge in the face of budgetary and teaching pressures.
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This session will provide delegates with the opportunity to workshop their ideas for living lab projects at their own institutions.
This session will explore the recipe for successful implementation of sustainable practices in teaching laboratories.
This session explores the premise that university taught courses can be “opened up” beyond their student cohort to support local action for sustainable development.
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This interactive workshop explores how collaboration can be used to measure and communicate the benefits provided by campus greenspace.
As a practical case study in answering such questions, an ongoing examination of the Sustainability Hub at Keele University is presented.